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Hats in Hospice
Ninety-one-year-old Morrie Boogart of Grandville, Michigan, has been knitting hats for the homeless for over 15 years, and his residence in hospice care is not about to stop him.
CNN affiliate WXMI reported that Boogart stopped counting the number of hats he has made once he reached 8,000. Boogart’s hats are meant for the particularly brutal Michigan winters, as they feature a rim to cover people’s ears and are reportedly thick and warm. Boxes of his hats have been delivered throughout the Grand Rapids area for years, and Boogart seeks to continue to produce as many hats as he can for as long as he can.
His drive to keep making hats continues despite being in hospice care with skin and kidney cancer and being virtually immobile. He continues to make one hat every two days, a speed that Boogart has claimed is “awfully slow,” compared to what he was capable of producing in the past.
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